We are passionate about equipping people with not only expert knowledge but also the skills to apply it appropriately and creatively. These industry-driven courses will give you the opportunity to learn in a practical environment, ensuring you are capable of taking these skills into the workplace.
Short Courses & Professional Development
Architecture, Construction and Surveying - Short Courses
Our short courses will equip you with the skills to successfully understand and solve key challenges that are faced within this industry.
Building Information Modelling: Application
Consider BIM and its applications for the built environment. Explore BIM at the conceptual design stage; cross discipline design; shared BIM models; BIM during the construction stages; CDE, technical issues; virtual prototyping; BIM protocol; interoperability; building data storage and accessibility; smart data workflow: digital construction and transformation.
Built Environment Contracts and Procurement
This module develops a strong understanding of contemporary built asset procurement and contractual practice, enabling students to evaluate how time, cost, quality, and risk shape project decisions. Learners explore traditional and modern procurement routes, assess contractual obligations and risks, and apply this knowledge to produce robust construction delivery strategies for complex project scenarios.
Construction Project Management: Principles, Practice and Behaviours
This module provides a holistic understanding of project management from inception to completion and occupation, focusing on feasibility, ethics, leadership, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement. Students will evaluate the project life cycle, understand the Project Manager’s role, and develop the skills to produce a professional Project Management Plan for successful delivery.
Design Management
Design management involves organising innovative activity and constructing frameworks within which design takes place. In that context, this course introduces to you design management as a process that encompasses creativity and innovation. With project management tools to equip professionals with the right range of skills to tackle design management projects.
Project Based Research
Build advanced research expertise and critical thinking skills in the built environment and construction project management. Designed for students and professionals who have completed the core CPM modules (120 credits), this module develops the ability to investigate current industry challenges, design robust methodologies, analyse evidence, and produce a professional research report that supports advanced study, consultancy, and evidence-based decision-making in practice.
Project Planning and Control
Find out more about the Project Planning & Control CPD course with 30 Credits at SCQF level 11 delivered on campus by Robert Gordon University (RGU) - a top ranking university for graduate employment based in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
Risk Management
Develop the expertise to identify, analyse, and control project risk in complex construction environments. This module explores modern risk management tools, probabilistic techniques, and Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) integration, enabling students to make informed project decisions and deliver safer, more resilient outcomes through industry-relevant risk planning and professional presentation skills.
Sustainable Development
Your studies will include an introduction to sustainable development within the construction industry, in addition to a critical analysis of the challenges involved in developing and enhancing the built environment with responsibility to the local and global environment, society and communities.